Firefox and 100% CPU flash advertisements

[meslick]

Hello:

This is a common problem I've been experiencing recently on a completely update FC3 distro. In firefox when a flash advertisement is shown (i have a 3GHz intel CPU) the cpu usage will jet up to 100% as shown on my applet on top of the gnome bar. If I scroll down to the bottom of the page where the advertisements can't be seen then the CPU goes back to normal. It's very worrying. What could possibly be going on?

Say the flash advertisements on this page (but really anywhere): <http://imdb.com/title/tt0401792/>

I've had to kill firefox processes every once in a while because they had literally brought my computer to a standstill.

Anyone had a similar problem?

Teak

[Brian1]

How about using the extension to stop flash ads from starting. Can be found here.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Can be setup to allow certain flashes to show.

Brian1
" Google the Linux way @ http://www.google.com/linux "

Originally Posted by Brian1

How about using the extension to stop flash ads from starting. Can be found here.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Can be setup to allow certain flashes to show.

Brian1
" Google the Linux way @ http://www.google.com/linux "

Thank you very much for the URL! I happen to think that flash is nothing more than a blatant waste of time and resources.

[meslick]

So is that really it? It's just that flash uses so much CPU? I can't believe that. These advertisements aren't video games and I'm on a pretty decent compute. Is flash just really poorly coded on Linux?

But thanks for the extension. I'll use it.

Teak